Research Article

Spectrophotometric Studies on the Thermodynamics of the ds-DNA Interaction with Irinotecan for a Better Understanding of Anticancer Drug-DNA Interactions

Table 3

The effect of salt concentration (KCl) on free energy changes ( , and ).

[ ] (mol L−1) (KJ mol−1) (kJ mol−1) (kJ mol−1)

0.01 −27.41 −11.27 −16.14 58.88
0.02 −25.59 −16.02 62.59
0.05 −25.15 −17.82 70.85
0.10 −21.05 −15.42 73.23